Free online courseGuitar for beginners
Duration of the online course: 9 hours and 26 minutes
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Discover the basics of classical guitar with GCH Guitar Academy's free beginner course. Learn chords, scales, and tunes in an interactive, self-paced format.
Course Description
Embark on a musical journey with GCH Guitar Academy's Guitar for Beginners course. Designed for those new to the world of classical guitar, this comprehensive course offers a detailed exploration of guitar basics, guiding you step-by-step through your first musical notes. Begin with selecting your first guitar and understanding its anatomy. Learn the essentials of tuning your guitar and using a metronome to master rhythm.
Dive into fundamental techniques, such as reading chord charts and tabs, and discover the art of holding and using a plectrum. Progress through learning easy chords like G major and G minor, and practice with beginner-friendly tunes such as 'She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain' and 'Hey Jude'. Experience the thrill of playing 'Rumble' by Link Wray and the Spanish-inspired 'Del Mar' by Sad Fantasy.
As your skills grow, explore advanced topics such as blues improvisation and guitar scales, including the pentatonic and major scales. The course also covers music theory, emphasizing chords, triads, and inversions. Learn the art of hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides to enhance your playing style.
Unlock creative possibilities with lessons on MIDI and barre chords, and improve your proficiency in reading repeats in music and guitar tabs. Immerse yourself in the world of guitar with structured lessons designed to build your confidence and musical abilities.
Course content
- Video class: Learn how to play the guitar for FREE. The GCH Guitar Academy First Steps beginners guitar course 12m
- Exercise: After registering and logging in to the GCH Guitar Academy download area, where can beginners find the backing tracks for the First Steps guitar course
- Video class: Choosing my first guitar, a beginners guide to guitar types - Lesson 1, of a beginners guitar course 17m
- Exercise: Acoustic vs Electric: Key Difference
- Video class: Guitar anatomy explained, what the parts of a guitar are called - First steps guitar course 16m
- Exercise: Which set correctly names the three main components of a guitar
- Video class: How to tune a guitar for beginners. An easy guitar lesson for tuning a guitar 29m
- Exercise: When tuning a guitar to itself in standard tuning, which fret on the G string matches the open B string?
- Video class: notes, to tune a guitar. Guitar tuning extra long reference notes E A D G B E 13m
- Video class: what is a metronomes, why you need a metronome, the choice of metronomes 15m
- Exercise: Why should a beginner guitarist practice with a metronome?
- Video class: Beginners guitar lesson. How to read a guitar chord chart, chord map, chord diagram 10m
- Exercise: Where should you place your fretting finger relative to the two fret wires when forming a chord
- Video class: How to hold a pick or plectrum. How to choose a pick or plectrum and how to use it correctly 11m
- Exercise: Strumming Technique: What should a beginner do with the pick for smooth, clear sound?
- Video class: How to play your first easy guitar chords, guitar lesson. Easy absolute beginners guitar course 32m
- Exercise: Which string should you avoid when strumming a C major chord?
- Video class: a very easy guitar tune to play, only 2 chords. Absolute beginners guitar course 27m
- Exercise: Identify the time signature used when strumming the beginner tune with C and G7
- Video class: Guitar lesson. Play your first chord tunes, She'll be comin' 'round the mountain 06m
- Exercise: In 4 over 4 time, how many beats are in each bar
- Video class: How to play Hey Jude on guitar with easy chords, beginners guitar lesson 06m
- Exercise: How should a beginner play a 4-beat bar that shows two chords?
- Video class: chord changes made easy (how to speed up guitar chords changes) - First Steps Guitar 35m
- Exercise: Best fingering for a smooth change from C major to G major
- Video class: How to read guitar tabs for beginners (guitar lesson on tablature or tab) 04m
- Exercise: Reading Guitar Tablature: Meaning of 0 on Top Line
- Video class: How to play the G major scale on a guitar - Beginners guitar lesson 02m
- Exercise: Best practice to improve finger stretching while playing the G major scale
- Video class: G minor harmonic scale - Learn to play the G minor harmonic scale on the guitar 01m
- Exercise: G minor harmonic scale: first three notes on the low E string
- Video class: How to play faster guitar 16m
- Exercise: Which thumb position best improves fretting reach for beginner scales?
- Video class: G minor natural scale - Learn to play the G minor natural scale on the guitar 02m
- Exercise: G minor natural scale starting notes on the bottom E string
- Video class: The 'G' minor pentatonic scale - Learn to play the pentatonic scale on the guitar 02m
- Exercise: G minor pentatonic: first two notes on the bottom E string
- Video class: Rumble by Link Wray - The coolest easy guitar riff 06m
- Exercise: In the GCH Guitar Academy first steps course, what should a beginner do first before learning a new tune?
- Video class: How to play Rumble by Link Wray. Easy, beginners guitar lesson 49m
- Exercise: Best left-hand approach for beginner pentatonic patterns
- Video class: Romantic, Spanish guitar tune. Del Mar by Sad Fantasy an instrumental tune with a holiday feel 11m
- Exercise: Beginner techniques to add dynamics to a single note melody
- Video class: easy beginners guitar lesson. How to play the Spanish style guitar tune Del Mar by Sad Fantasy 1h08m
- Exercise: Best way to count multiple bars of rest in 4/4
- Video class: Guitar lesson 1 of 9. How to play blues scales. (how to guitar solo) 04m
- Exercise: Which frets are played on the G string in position one of the A blues scale?
- Video class: Guitar lesson 2 of 9. How to play blues scales. (how to guitar solo) 05m
- Exercise: What is the recommended first step before improvising blues on guitar?
- Video class: Guitar lesson 3. Blues improvisation backing tracks. (Backings to improvise with) 13m
- Video class: How to play guitar barre chords. E string rooted or first position, beginners guitar lesson 04m
- Exercise: From the E string rooted major barre chord shape, how do you create the seventh chord?
- Video class: How to play guitar chords or scale, how to hold a guitar correctly, important guitar lesson. 18m
- Exercise: Which thumb position best improves finger reach for beginner chords and scales
- Video class: Guitar chord theory 1 - Major and minor chord structure, triads and inversions 11m
- Exercise: Which notes form the triad for a C major chord?
- Video class: Repeats in music and guitar tab (tablature) - How to read and use repeat symbols 02m
- Exercise: Understanding nested repeat symbols in music notation
- Video class: The guitar scale every guitarists should learn - How to play the Major scale on guitar (fixed) 29m
- Exercise: Which interval pattern defines the major scale on guitar
- Video class: How to improvise on the major scale - Guitar lesson using the C major scale 04m
- Exercise: When improvising with a backing track using the two octave major scale, what is essential to ensure?
- Video class: Backing tracks to improvise with - use the C major scale or A minor scale 12m
- Video class: MIDI a beginners guide. What is MIDI, how to use MIDI, do I need MIDI 19m
- Exercise: For a beginner guitarist using MIDI with a multi effects or virtual instruments, what does the MIDI signal actually transmit?
- Video class: A string rooted guitar barre chords - learn how to play 2nd position barre chords 07m
- Exercise: On which fret would you place the second position major shape to play D major when the root is on the A string
- Video class: Guitar chord theory 2 - 7th chords,dominant seventh chords on guitar 04m
- Exercise: Which set of notes correctly forms a C major 7th chord?
- Video class: Guitar note names - learn the names of the notes on a guitar in 4 easy steps 07m
- Exercise: Which pairs of natural notes are a semitone apart on the guitar fretboard
- Video class: Sharps and flats on the guitar. What are sharps and flats on a guitar (guitar # and b) 05m
- Exercise: On guitar, what does adding a sharp to a note mean?
- Video class: How to play a hammer on on the guitar (guitar hammer on) 03m
- Exercise: How do you correctly perform a hammer on from fret 5 to 7 on the top E string
- Video class: How to play pull offs on a guitar LEFT HANDED (pulling off guitar lesson 1) 03m
- Exercise: In guitar tablature, what does the letter p above a slur between two fret numbers indicate?
- Video class: How to play a slide on guitar (beginners guitar lesson on slides) 05m
- Exercise: In guitar tablature, what does a slide with a slur line indicate about picking?
- Video class: How to play pull offs on a guitar (pulling off guitar lesson 1) 03m
- Exercise: In beginner guitar tablature, what does the letter p above a slur indicate and how is the note produced?
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